Music notes: Enjoy Baroque music performed by University of Utah alumni, students and staff

Published January 12, 2013 1:01 am

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Mozart at U. of U.

University of Utah School of Music faculty musicians will perform Mozart's Piano Quartet in G minor and Dohnányi's Sextet. Performers are pianist Jeffrey Price, violinist James Gardner, violist Robert Baldwin, cellist John Eckstein, clarinetist Kathy Pope and hornist Steve Proser.

Catherine Mayes, an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Utah, will present a lecture on the cultural associations and meanings of Turkish and Hungarian-Gypsy styles in the late 18th century.

When • Friday, Jan. 18, noon

Where • Dumke Recital Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City

Tickets • Free

Journeys of Love

"Jornadas de Amor," or "Journeys of Love," is a concert of Spanish opera and zarzuela (musical comedy), performed by Utah Opera's 2012-13 Resident Artists. Proceeds will benefit the West View Community Newspaper and The Mundi Project.

When • Friday, Jan. 18, 7 p.m.

Where • Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City

Tickets • $5; $10 family, up to six members. Call 801-535-6533.

Concerto winners

The winners of the SummerArts Piano Competition will perform in concert with American West Symphony. The program will include works by Mozart, Grieg and Rachmaninoff.

Richards, a retired bank executive, was appointed vice chair of US | UO in 2004, shortly after the controversial 2002 merger of the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera. She was instrumental in hiring CEO Melia Tourangeau and Utah Symphony music director Thierry Fischer, and in negotiating the collective bargaining agreement with the musicians union on five occasions. Noting that Richards and her husband, Bill Nichols, donated $1 million to help start the arts organization's comprehensive campaign, the OPERA America news release quoted Tourangeau as calling her "a pillar of strength" who has "far exceeded any expectation of what a board chair should do for a nonprofit organization." In addition to her financial contributions, Richards volunteers her voice as a member of the Utah Symphony Chorus.